Colonial foundations and early industrialization efforts. At its establishment, various elites constituting the state in Colonial Zimbabwe, such as international capital, farmers, miners, and merchants, believed in the supremacy of the primary exporting industries of agriculture and mining in propelling the economy.
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colonial government was determined to see the success of their political economy through the ruthless use of cheap labour accumulated through brutal laws and legislations. Therefore, it is apparent that during the first fifty (50) years of colonial capitalism in Zimbabwe there was an intense pre-occupation with legislation
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Phimister's doctoral thesis (and subsequent articles) on Southern Rhodesia's mining history offer an indispensable study of the development, growth and significance of the …
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Copper Empire Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c.1930-64 Larry Butler Hardcover 9780230555266 £93.00 / $150.00 Copper Empire is a study of the evolving relationship between the British colonial state and the copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia, from the early stages of development to decolonization, encompassing depression, …
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In a paper related to this study, it has been argued that mining capital in early colonial Zimbabwe benefited considerably in its policies from cheap African labour, cost …
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Comprehensive paper on recent research in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. Composed as a 48-pp A5 booklet, it records direct evidence of precolonial gold-mining from laboratory results, and identifies the function of built structures …
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AI-generated Abstract. The paper examines the complexities of the settler state in colonial Zimbabwe during the 1923-1929 period. It discusses the socio-economic dynamics involving agricultural production, the political landscape favoring capital accumulation, and the oppressive measures employed by the authorities against indigenous populations, particularly in the …
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Figure 1 shows maize production in Zimbabwe from 1961 to 2011. From the early 1960s to the late 1970s, the production of maize was steady. ... Post-colonial mining in Zimbabwe. ... The Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation was established in 1983 with a specific mandate of ensuring that copper mines that were threatened with closure during ...
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The capital and land resources necessary to restructure agriculture are monopolized by large-scale capitalist farmers. The development of capitalism in Zimbabwean agriculture is generating growth but intensifying spatial 'and social agrarian differentiation. This is consistent with classical Marxian interpretations of the agrarian question.
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enslavement on the colonial mines in Zimbabwe. It sets out the recruitment meth-ods, the living and working conditions, as well as the coercive methods of labour control and subjugation. In …
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This article explores the development of small grains (sorghum, millet, and rapoko) production and marketing in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) over the colonial era from 1890 to the …
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This thesis provides insights into the nature and organization of iron technology associated with past and present communities of Great Zimbabwe in southern Africa. Written accounts, ethnographic enquiries and, results of archaeological field surveys and excavations are combined to provide the first detailed account of Great Zimbabwe's iron ...
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Conflicts among settlers and colonial officials not only reveal the contradictions of colonial rule and capitalist development but also contributed to the making of the land question in Zimbabwe.
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The process of economic development in the British settler colony of Southern Rhodesia (the modern nation of Zimbabwe) was dominated by the needs of European capitalists who had …
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The Farmer-Miner Dispute in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1903-1939 MUCHAPARARA MUSEMWA Department of History University of the Witwatersrand PO Wits 2050 Johannesburg 2000 South Africa Email: Muchaparara.Musemwa @wits.ac.za ABSTRACT The formative years of settler occupation in colonial Zimbabwe were characterised
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The process of economic development in the British settler colony of Southern Rhodesia (the modern nation of Zimbabwe) was dominated by the needs of European …
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development of capitalist mining in colonial zimbabwe by the early s In the early years of European colonisation, mining and agriculture were the bases of the Rhodesian colonial …
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Agrarian Capitalism in colonial Zimbabwe: An overview, is an introductory outline of the forces behind the development of settler agriculture in colonial Zimbabwe. It situates colonial Zimbabwean agriculture within the global economy. Chapter Two, Emergence of the Rhodesian Coffee Economy: the First Phase; c.1900-1950 gives an account of the ...
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dc.description.abstract: The capitalist economy of colonial Zimbabwe whose objective is the production of maximum surplus value to be appropriated by the international and settler bourgeoisie is a product of British colonial imperialism which was an effort by Britain in the 19th century to resolve her socio-economic crisis caused by the sharpening of contradictions …
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It continued to be a religious capital when Pfura became the commercial capital. Apart from gold mining, pre-colonial Great Zimbabwe recorded tremendous achievements in the field of metallurgy. ... Commerce The pre-colonial Great Zimbabwe commerce started as early as 11th century AD with Mapungubwe trading ivory along the Limpopo River to the ...
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Zimbabwe's mining sector in general (Magidi, 2018) and gold mining (Saunders, 2008). Several major gold mines, which included Connemara, Eureka and Venice Mines, were thus forced to close ...
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Extractive industries indigenisation, displacement and vulnerabilities: The case of Arda Transau, Zimbabwe, 2023. The discovery of diamonds in 2006 in Marange's Chiadzwa area and extractive industry indigenisation in Zimbabwe beginning in 2010 has led to an expanding number of mining-induced internally displaced persons in the country.
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Beyond Agency: The African Peasantry, the State, and Tobacco in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–80 - Volume 63 Issue 1 ... during the 1930s, as 'the further development of settler capitalism could no longer …
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That Zimbabwe has a significant and diverse mineral resource base is not in doubt. With estimates that Zimbabwe has the second largest reserves of chrome and platinum after South Africa and potential to supply about 25% of the …
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The article revises the popular depiction of colonial rural healthcare reform as an essentially post-World War I phenomenon and argues that the collage of reasons, including the colonists' enlightened self-interest, which have been proffered by historians to explain healthcare reform in other colonies were, in colonial Zimbabwe, neither self-evident nor uncontested. …
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The BSAC government took up the role of governance. Many early settlers were involved in prospecting, and if they found gold, would usually sell their claims to larger mining companies such as Globe and Phoenix. The colonial project in the early days was based on a mining model and revenue sharing agreement between the miners and the company state.
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The concept of sustainable development lent itself well to dispelling or at least refiguring the tensions and contradictions within the global mining sector. So I expected to hear accounts of Canadian mining professionals as sustainable development actors. There were some references to this discourse, but not nearly as many as I had expected.
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This 1913 Accumulation of Capital linkage by Luxemburg (1968: 413), between underlying capitalist laws of motion and imperialism, was the first historical-geographical-materialist analysis of how economic crises play out through North/South, capitalist/non-capitalist relations.Although there are hints of this process in the work of the late Marx, Luxemburg's …
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Rarely do we hone in on the precolonial agricultural trends of Zimbabwe to better understand indigenous practices and the systems that were eroded by colonization. Rarely do we hone in on how these trends compare to those of the colonial and …
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As Donal Lowry points out, the British colonists (and other white people) who settled in early colonial Zimbabwe were predominantly of lower middle class who feared competition from people who did not look like them.32 As such, the Britishdominated colonial administration sought to create subordinate identities by treating Indians, Africans ...
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